Category: Quote

  • 17/10/2020
    On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of British journalism, the editor’s desk at the…
  • 15/10/2020
    I think1 the words are mine: Every time I hear the term line-manager used about an academic, retirement gets a…
  • 12/10/2020
    A note is here
  • 12/10/2020
    After he had been dismissed from government, and implicated in the anti-Medici conspiracy, Machiavelli was imprisoned, tortured, before returning to…
  • 10/10/2020
    I cannot see the future, but like many, I have private models that I use to order the world, and…
  • 09/10/2020
    Many years ago I was expressing exasperation at what I took to be the layers and layers of foolishness that…
  • 08/10/2020
    But after completing medical training, Sacks fled the homophobic confines of his nation and family—his mother had called him “an…
  • 07/10/2020
    I read Malcolm Bradbury’s satire The History Man many decades ago and loved it as a satire on university life…
  • 06/10/2020
    Nice article in the Economist on how our ideas about speciation have been revised and updated. And not just for…
  • 05/10/2020
    My experience is limited, but everything I know suggests that much IT in healthcare diminishes medical care. It may serve…